Chapter 185

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[Hidden Space: You have discovered the entrance to the 7th Demon Realm].
[Increase your prestige by being the first to discover the entrance to the Demon Realm].
[Only prestige 3 went up].
“Demonic?”
Ming Hu looked away from the message and toward the door, then back to the message and muttered, “I’m sorry.
“Demon world?”
Siaak
Just then, Karot warped in behind him. Ming Hu turned his head to look at Karot as he arrived and said.
“Is this the place you said?”
-Yes, sir. This is the right place, but that door…
Karotte looked at the door in response to Ming Hu’s words. Ming Hu followed Karot’s gaze to the door and said, “I’m sorry.
“They say it’s the entrance to the Seventh Realm.”
-…the Seventh Realm?
At Karot’s knowing look, Ming Hu looked at Karot and continued.
“Uh, guess what?”
-Yes, I don’t know much about it, but… The realm ruled by Agranecto, the Demon King of Death, is called the Seventh Realm. The Seventh Realm is always at night and is said to be inhabited by ghouls, skeletons, and other undead monsters.
“Really?”
Ming Hu turned his attention back to the door at Karot’s words.
Jumbled
Then, moving toward the door, he said.
“Seventh Demon Realm… How strong is that Death Demon?”
-It’s…
Karot trailed off. Then he shook his head and said, “I’m sorry.
-Agranecto himself, whose powers are said to be embarrassingly weak for a demon.
“Really?”
Sigh
Ming Hu reached for the door. And just as he touched the door, a message began to appear.
[You have activated the entrance to the Seventh Demon Realm].
[Open Step 12].
[All conditions are in place to open the entrance].
[One more operation will open the door].
[Final warning. If the gate is opened, it will connect this place to the 7th Demon Realm and increase the stats of all undead monsters on the First Continent by 50% until the Death Demon Agranecto is destroyed].
[Also, two months after the gates are opened, Agranecto, the Demon of Death, descends on the continent].
[When opening a door, a special quest is issued to all users except the user who opened it].
“…”
When the message appeared, Ming Hu stared at it wordlessly, then quickly slammed his hand on the door and muttered, “I’ll be damned.
“I don’t think I should open this…”
It seemed like opening the gate would unleash a whole lot of trouble. In particular, the 50% buff to all undead monsters on the continent listed in the message was going to be an immediate problem.
“…Let’s just go back.”
Ming Hu eventually decided not to open the door and turned around to look at Karot.
“Is there anything special here besides this door?”
-…Example.
“Go back, I don’t think you should open it.”
-Agreed, sir.
Upon hearing Karot’s answer, Ming Hu summoned Karot back, and then used the Ring of Memory to create a portal to return to the forge.
“Uh, hello. Myung-hoo!”
When Heimer returned to the forge, he found Ming Hu and greeted him.
“Yes, hello.”
Ming Hu bowed to Heimer and walked straight into the forge to approach Nerfai.
“I…”
“Ah! You’re here! That’s great!”
“…?”
“I was looking for you, even if you weren’t. Well, technically, it wasn’t me, it was Mr. Revill who came looking for you.”
“Mr. Revill?”
“Yes, he said to hand it to him when he gets here.”
With that, Nerfai pulled a scroll from under his workbench and handed it to Ming Hu.
Sigh
Ming Hu took the scroll and returned to his seat. He unfolded the scroll.
<Magdan's Sea Monster?
In Magdan, a coral city just above the coastal city of Radia, famous for its blue and red coral, there is a rumor circulating. The rumor is that a monster has appeared off the coast of Bedrin, where the coral is harvested, but if the rumor is true, not all of those who have gone into the sea to collect coral have returned. Viscount Samon, ruler of Magdan, personally sent out investigators, but they did not return either. He has turned to the Emperor for help, and he wants you to take on the task.
Difficulty Level: B
Quest Reward: 2 million Helioca Merit + ??? (You will receive additional Merit.)
"Two million?
After checking the quest reward, Ming Hu immediately tore through the scroll.
[You have accepted the quest].
As he ripped the scroll away, the quest acceptance message appeared as it always did. Ming Hu looked away from the message and opened his inventory.
"I'll just sell my gold and go.
With the gold from the Black Moon Tower, Ming Hu now had 40 million gold. Since he didn't need to keep such a large sum of money, Ming Hu decided to stop by the auction house on his way to Magdan to dispose of the gold, so he left the forge and started walking to the auction house.
Woof, woof, woof
"Buy an emergency item."
"Buying gold. I buy gold for $8,000 per gold, up to 700 gold."
"I'm selling 300 gold. 9500 cents per gold!"
After arriving at the auction house, Ming Hu walked past the players and entered the auction house. He immediately approached the auction house NPC and opened the purchase board to check the in-game money section. As expected, there were tons of offers to buy on the board.
"It's 8500 won."
When Ming Hu saw the price of gold, he was disappointed.
"What a waste. If only I'd gotten this money then."
Ming Hu remembered the time when the price went up to 15,000 won, so he closed the buy board and opened the sell board to check the price of gold.
"I'll put it at around $9,000."
Currently, the lowest price for gold on the sales board was 9,000 yuan per gold. Ming Hu opened his inventory and muttered to himself as he looked at the gold in his possession.
"How much should I raise…"
Raising 40 million gold at once was crazy.
"It'll take a while, but 200,000 gold… should be fine."
Ming Hu gave the NPC 200,000 gold, registered it to be sold automatically at 9,000 per gold, and opened the transaction status window.
1. amount of gold for sale: 200000 [9000 won per gold]
Gold remaining: 197000
Amount sold: 27,000,000
'So… fast.
As soon as he registered for the automated sale, he opened the transaction status window, and in that short time, he sold 3,000 gold. Ming Hu kept hitting refresh. Each time he hit refresh, the amount of gold remaining decreased.
1. amount of gold for sale: 200000 [9000 won per gold]
Gold remaining : 0
Amount Sold: 1,800,000,000
After a while, when all the 200,000 gold he had posted was sold, Ming Hu collected his mileage and handed the NPC back 200,000 gold to register for the auto-sale and started waiting for the gold to sell.
"This is surprisingly time-consuming…
Ming Hu, who was used to selling gold and raising it again when it was sold out, frowned slightly as it took more time than he expected.
'But 40 million gold. How much is that?
Ming Hu handed over 200,000 gold again to register for the automatic sale and did the math.
'At 9,000 won per gold. 40 million… 3600 billion?
That's 3,600 billion, or 40 million gold at 9,000 yuan per gold, and Ming Hu couldn't help but smile at the unbelievable amount.
"Even if it's only 4%…huh.
At this point, Ming Hu's credit rating was 4, and the transaction fee was 4%. But even at 4%, it was still a lot of money.
"…"
Ming Hu realized that he had sold all his gold, and after receiving the mileage, he raised his gold again. He looked at his remaining gold and the miles he had earned from selling gold and thought to himself.
"It's nice to have more money, but this money, this 60 billion, what are we going to use it for?
I had a lot of money, both the money I made from selling gold now and the 60 billion I made from selling gold and items before, but I had nothing to spend it on. If I had debts, I would pay them off, but I didn't have any debts, and I didn't feel like buying a house or a car.
'Later… I'll have something to write about.'
After some thought, Ming Hu stopped thinking about what to do with the money, thinking that he would need it later, and began selling gold in silence.
"…It's getting a little slow.
The more gold I sold, the more I sold, the slower it started to sell.
"Should I sell it later?
As the pace slowed, Ming Hu thought for a moment. But then he shook his head.
"No, the market is trending down…
The current price of gold was steadily declining. If he sold it later, it would likely be at a lower price than now. Ming Hu decided to sell it all today, no matter how long it took, and continued to sell gold. Some time later, while continuing to sell gold, Ming Hu was surprised by a message that popped up out of nowhere.
[User 'Ssangsal' has opened the gate to the 7th Demon Realm].
[All undead monsters on the continent will have their stats increased by 50% until Agranecto the Death Demon, King of the 7th Demon Realm, is destroyed].
[Two months from now, Agranecto, the Demon of Death, will descend upon the continent].
[You can get a special quest from the nearest temple].
"…What?"
Ming Hu stared at the message in disbelief, then looked around.
"What's that, a demon world, the one we know?"
"The Death Devil or Agranecto?"
"Advent in two months?"
"What the hell, what was that in the update that came out of nowhere?"
The message wasn't just for him. From the way they were talking, it was clear that the message had reached the users in the auction house as well. Ming Hu turned his gaze away from the chattering players and back to the message.